Ultimately i would like to be able to use the remote control to send a notification to play a playlist (from a specified list) from a random point in shuffle mode, as well as being able to pause/play and maybe rewind/repeat he current song.

@Stubbsy1994 The link you provided describes how to embed youtube API into HTML sites using iframe-Tags in two ways. It seems, the module shown in the thread above uses the first method (iframe with source http:// www.youtube. com/embed/VIDEO_ID?parameters). I guess, the pure JS method ultimatively also uses an iframe since its called IFrame Player API.

As far as I can see, both have equal functionality. It’s not really documented, but it seems like you can call all the functions for the player-object listed here in the direct iframe approach (first method), too. See parameter enablejsapi=1. For example pause or seek-to (not verified for all functions!):